Gurgaon Report Card - last 12 months

FG Bureau

India

Jun 19, 2015

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FG has run a Gurgaon Report Card for 3 years now. Many residents still await the delivery of basic civic amentiies and services – both from the Administration and private ‘developers’. MCG remains a non-starter. The Gurgaon II (new sectors) story promises to be bleaker.

Where We Fared Poorly(almost all items have featured in the same column in the last 2 years)

Erratic & inadequate Water supply; bursting of major pipelines; there is no power back up at the Water Treatment Plant.

Erratic & inadequate Power supply; sub-stations have still not been set up in most private builder areas (despite collection of EDC decades ago).

A disconnected Sewage network, no separate storm water drains, poor garbage collection, waste lying untreated and seeping into the ground at the Bandhwari Waste Treatment Plant (which has now been shut for about nine months), and no separate space for dumping and/or treatment of malba & e-waste

Ineffective Water Harvesting.

Illegal bore wells feeding new construction sites.

Only one City Bus Shelter constructed (5 constructed to date)

Renovation of the Bus Stand & Railway Station not carried out (Railway Station now started)

One too many accidental deaths and suicides taking place on the railway tracks.

Many autos, specially share autos, still running without a fare rate/meter.

Road repairs remain ‘surface deep’ – the first rains (thankfully there have hardly been any) pothole the roads.

Toll Plaza chaos at Kherki Daula now; a new operator is appointed.

MG Road renovation on-going for over a year; Northern and Southern Peripheral Roads (NPR, SPR) remain incomplete - dogged by court cases and inaction by the State on rehabilitation decisions.

Multiple FOBs/underpasses are planned and announcements made – there is little progress.

Completion of the Jaipur Highway (NH8) extra-ordinarily delayed; it’s been almost a decade now.

An unauthorised Parking mess spans the City; multi-level parking sites still being debated.

No growth in jobs in the IT/BPO, Auto & Export sectors. Udyog Vihars sorely lack infrastructure; Manesar now a sham of a Model Industrial Township.

No closure in the Maruti violence case, even after 2 years – 150+ workers still languish in jail.

Demand for Real Estate, especially Commercial, is at an all-time low.

The SC ruling in the Silver Oaks case allegedly goes against the rights of residents.

Many private builder areas continue to have poor facilities and maintenance, leading to multiple protests on the road; 100 buyers land up at a Unitech construction site, offering themselves as ‘labour’, to make up for the repeated delays.

Gurgaon II (new sectors) residents have started occupying apartments without authorised water and power supply, or sewage connections.

Haryana Lokayukta finds Chief Parliamentary Secretary Fauji guilty of corruption; the State govt. gets the High Court to stay further action.

The ‘bogus votes’ case against State Minister Sukhbir Kataria and others, completes a 5-year term – 8 FIRs have been filed.